The cover story in the January 2018 issue of Nature Medicine, entitled ‘Puzzling over privilege’, highlights the research on Zika virus by Saguna Verma and her co-workers, published recently in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of Virology.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa, under the leadership of Vivek R. Nerurkar, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has successfully competed for renewed five-year funding for the Northern/Pa…

Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen, which has caused great concern to the international community. Eighty percent of individuals infected with Zika virus present no symptoms, however infection has been linked to development of severe fetal abnormalities including stillbirth and microc…

Zika virus (ZIKV) has recently emerged as a new public health threat. ZIKV infectionshave caused a wide spectrum of neurological diseases, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, myelitis,meningoencephalitis, and congenital microcephaly. No effective therapies currently exist for treating patients infe…

Risk of malaria in infants can be influenced by prenatal factors. In this study, the potential for placental parasitemia at delivery in predicting susceptibility of infants to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) infections was evaluated. Seventy-two newborns of mothers who were placental malaria negat…

Bacterial cooperative associations and dynamics in the biofilm microenvironments are of special interest in recent years. Knowledge of localized gene-expression and corresponding bacterial behaviors within the biofilm architecture at a global scale has been limited, due to a lack of robust technolog…